Physicans should consider ordering oral anti-inflammatory such as predinose for quarantine patients.

Physicians never want to order unnecessary medications, I think COVID-19 is the exception. A short course of any kind of oral anti-inflammatory will not hurt most people. There are always exceptions, but, then that is why doctors are ordering it.

To the best of my knowledge remdesivir can only be administered in the hospital as intravenous medication. However, if the physician believes this medication is needed in a quarantine situation, there is always home care that can administer it in the home. It would be interesting if remdesivir could be an oral solution or pill.

I believe the quarantine timeline begins at two weeks. Two weeks is a long time for SARS-CoV-2 to grow inside the human body. While quarantine limits help society to contain the virus, it can be devastating to the person. This example is tragic. This is a young man that was very, very healthy and the lousy virus found this brain a place where it could replicate. We have seen this by neurological surgeons that detect blood clots in some patients. The blood clots are a result of cell rupture when SARS-CoV-2 breaks cell walls to continue it's replication.

I can't help but wonder if a reduction in the inflammation would at least protect some of the brain not directly infected by the virus. I am also curious about the effects of anti-inflammatories directly on the virus itself. Do anti-inflammatories only protect the tissues of the body or can it directly effect the virus itself. Simple tests in the lab could answer that.

The other aspect of the immune response quite possibly could be dietary. If the patient is able to eat while infected perhaps a nutritional supplement designed to support the stressed immune system is in order. The immune system begins it's work as an infection invades the body, the idea is to increase the nutritional support of the patient during a time when the immune system is demanding the body to work differently at survival. Intravenous nutritional support is always available to hospitalized patients. There is a chance that in attempting to support the immune response it could create a benevolent environment to the virus, although DNA is it's pursuit. Perhaps a trial of nutritional support is in order, too. This concept is especially important to people experiencing food insecurity. The United Nations has developed biscuits that assist with nutrition, so the concept is not foreign to scientists.

This guy breaks my heart. This is the nightmare I thought the country needs to avoid at all costs. It is just that the cyber network works. Why the risk-taking?

September 30, 2020

By Shawn Hubler

Chad Dorrill died of neurological complications related to Covid-19. His uncle said Mr. Dorrill’s legs didn’t work when he tried to get out of bed.

Chad Dorrill was in “tremendous shape.” (click here) Tall and slender. Played basketball. Ran long distances. But the 19-year-old college student died on Monday night, apparently of neurological complications related to Covid-19.

Mr. Dorrill, a sophomore at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., had been living off campus and taking classes online when he became ill with flulike symptoms, the school’s chancellor, Sheri Everts, wrote on Tuesday in a statement to students confirming his death. “His mother encouraged him to come home, quarantine and be tested,” Dr. Everts said.

He tested positive for the coronavirus on Sept. 7 and quarantined for 10 days before returning to Boone, according to his uncle David Dorrill, who said he lives seven houses away from the family in Wallburg, N.C., near Winston-Salem. He said that after his nephew returned to college, he almost immediately began experiencing serious neurological problems....

Fires are increasing again in western states.

30 September 2020

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GOES (Geostationary) East Satellite (click here for 3 hour loop)

This satellite shows an enormous vortex. It has dumped huge amounts of water in the eastern third of the country causing flooding. People were left without electricity in some places. There was also disruption in transportation.

September 30, 2020

By Isabel Keane

After a night (click here) of heavy rainfall, residents of the Lower Hudson Valley should expect some delays and road closures today due to flooding and downed wires.

Across Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties nearly 10,000 customers were left without power from strong overnight storms.

While many local parkways tend to flood, minor closures on the Bronx River Parkway were cleared by 8 a.m., Westchester County police said.

A tractor-trailer rollover on Interstate 95 in New Rochelle that occurred around midnight had two southbound lanes of the Thruway blocked overnight, but that crash was cleared by 8 a., state police said.

Those taking Metro-North Railroad today may also experience delays due to the weather. The Harlem Line is delayed up to 30 minutes due to a downed tree, the MTA said.

With increasing heat, carbon, and particulate release in the western USA, the Gulf is becoming active again. It is also easy to see the vortex is a heat transfer system off the Equator. The bottom shows the hemispheric vortex reaching past the North American and South American borders into the Pacific Ocean.

September 30, 2020

7:19 am EST

NOAA Satellite 

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: (click here)

1. A tropical wave located over the west-central Caribbean Sea is expected to move westward over the next couple of days and interact with a frontal system, producing a broad area of low pressure over the western Caribbean Sea by Thursday night or Friday. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for some development thereafter, and a tropical depression could form over the weekend while the system moves slowly west-northwestward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.

* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.

GOES-East Full Disk - GeoColor (click here for 4 hour loop)

The fires today go beyond the West Coast this morning. (click here)

The newest fires are in South Dakota and Nebraska. This movement east is worrisome especially because with higher winds in the Midwest and West is basically still. 

September 30, 2020

By Toni Dreibus

Weather maps (click here) in North Dakota and South Dakota are lit up as a red-flag warning, extreme fire danger warnings, and wind advisories have been issued, according to the National Weather Service....

The 2020 harvest is underway. It is going fairly well this year.

The USA's weather nearly divides the country in half when it comes to drought. The eastern half is receiving huge amounts of water with the persistent storms, while the western half is in profound drought. 

Drought Monitor (click here)

The harvest is currently facilitated with the dry weather.

Why the Proud Boys?

Established (click here) in the midst of the 2016 presidential election by VICE Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, the Proud Boys are self-described “western chauvinists” who adamantly deny any connection to the racist “alt-right,” insisting they are simply a fraternal group spreading an “anti-political correctness” and “anti-white guilt” agenda....

...They are known for anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric. Proud Boys have appeared alongside other hate groups at extremist gatherings like the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. Indeed, former Proud Boys member Jason Kessler helped to organize the event, which brought together Klansmen, antisemites, Southern racists, and militias. Kessler was only “expelled” from the group after the violence and near-universal condemnation of the Charlottesville rally-goers....

Trump likes to think he is the inspiration for the organization of the Proud Boys. The group was organized by a media empire founder (click here), therefor Trump has an exclusive media network to carry his propaganda. To Trump, what could be better? 

I might add, even though Joe Biden is determined to attend the other two debates, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an excellent point in stating Trump would USE the debate to drive lies and propaganda.

I also believe Trump's lies and propaganda has immeasurable results in the electorate. The Trump campaign widely is about recruiting marginal voters. When Trump goes off the rails it is about entertaining those that may be recruited to vote. Trump excels in recruiting non-traditional voters. The verbal abuse leveled at the country last night was to get the attention of people, not about facts. Trump has an allegiance from the "Gossip News Rags" like the National Enquirer. Those are the people he is looking to find and entertain.

Regardless of Trump's White Supremacist/Nationalist loyalty voter, there are polls that Joe Biden is making inroads with White Men. That alone is a reason for Joe to continue to reach out to them. I think it is important the Biden voters are diverse. He promised to bring the country back together, his outreach in this manner is vital to his "healing" agenda.

Trump is defending his failures in protecting the American people...

...from COVID-19 by calling the response a responsible and good response. The response to the SARS-CoV-2 by Trump was never to prevent it, so much as "herd immunity." He has said the words "Herd Immunity" from the first days of the American awareness of the virus.

Trump never prevented the spread, he has always encouraged it and caused deaths when they could have been prevented.

The reason there is no vaccine to react to SARS-CoV-2 from the start is that it was never needed before now. SARS was controlled and limited to a double-digit number in the USA. There was never a need for a vaccine because these viruses were always contained.

The CDC was muzzled from the beginning. That is a fact.

May 20, 2020
By Robert Kuznia, Curt Devine and Nick Valencia,

In the early weeks of the US coronavirus outbreak, (click here) staff members in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tracked a growing number of transmissions in Europe and elsewhere, and proposed a global advisory that would alert flyers to the dangers of air travel.

But about a week passed before the alert was issued publicly -- crucial time lost when about 66,000 European travelers were streaming into American airports every day.

The delay, detailed in documents obtained by CNN, is the latest example to emerge of a growing sense of disconnect between the CDC and the White House.

In interviews with CNN, CDC officials say their agency's efforts to mount a coordinated response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been hamstrung by a White House whose decisions are driven by politics rather than science.

The result has worsened the effects of the crisis, sources inside the CDC say, relegating the 73-year-old agency that has traditionally led the nation's response to infectious disease to a supporting role.

Masks, June 2020 from UCSF:

...But health experts say (click here) the evidence is clear that masks can help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and that the more people wearing masks, the better....

Trump's economy was purchased with tax breaks.

This is a myth? 

September 27, 2020

...Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes (click here) the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made....

September 15, 2020

Joe Biden's economic proposals (click here) would create a faster growing economy, higher wages for American workers and reduce the debt compared to where the U.S. is headed under President Donald Trump, according to new analysis from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School....

The sherrifs Trump claim is going to vote for him refused to put his deputies on the streets even after the Governor's plan stated it was necesssary.

August 31, 2020

By Gillian Flaccus

...Brown, a Democrat, (click here) announced the security plan for Portland after the fatal shooting of Aaron Danielson, 39, on Saturday as Black Lives Matter protesters clashed with Trump supporters who drove in a caravan through the city. No one has been arrested in the case.

The rejection by the two sheriffs, elected as nonpartisans, increases uncertainty about Portland's future just as Trump puts the chaos in Portland in his campaign crosshairs as part of his law and order re-election campaign theme.

Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts said inundating the city with more law enforcement would not work because Portland's newly elected district attorney has dismissed charges against hundreds of protesters arrested for non-violent, low-level crimes.

Roberts and Washington County Sheriff Pat Garrett also said the liability for their deputies would be too great amid worries deputies could be sued for actions they take outside their home jurisdictions.

“The same offenders are arrested night after night, only to be released by the court and not charged with a crime by the DA’s Office," Roberts said. "The next night they are back at it, endangering the lives of law enforcement and the community all over again.”...

The Hunter Biden issue is debunked. The mayor of Moscow was removed because he was accused of corruption. His wife is very wealthy. The monies that were WIRED to the USA was to banks to invest in a computer company of sorts. There was never any amounts of money given to Hunter Biden. The company the Russians started end up in bankruptcy. There were vast amounts of money wired to the USA but it was for their won use.'

September 2020

Veterans Affairs officials (click here) reported more deaths from coronavirus patients in August than any previous month of the pandemic, but department leaders dismissed concerns about the rising number of fatalities by questioning their own public records on the virus.

As of Monday evening, at least 2,935 VA patients have died from the sickness in the last six months, according to the department’s own daily summary of cases. About one in every 18 positive cases of coronavirus among VA patients has resulted in a death.

There were 820 patient deaths reported in August. About 490 individuals died from virus-connected conditions in July, about 380 in June, about 720 in May and roughly 500 in April and March combined, according to VA’s daily public releases on virus response....

The Billion Tree Campaign is from the United Nations, not Trump. (click here)

March 31, 2020

By Rebecca Beitsch

The Trump administration (click here) on Tuesday rolled back an Obama-era law that pushes automakers to produce more fuel efficient vehicles, severely limiting a rule designed to decrease pollution from transportation in the face of climate change.

The new rule cuts the year-over-year improvements expected from the auto industry, slashing standards that require automakers to produce fleets that average nearly 55 mpg by 2025. Instead, the Trump rule would bring that number down to about 40 mpg by 2026, bringing mileage below what automakers have said is possible for them to achieve.

Trump's idea about consumer choice is a fantasy. They want SUVs and trucks.

The Trump administration has argued that cutting Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards will allow automakers to produce cheaper cars, something they say will save 3,300 lives as lower prices spur consumers to upgrade to new vehicles with better safety features that guzzle less gas than older models....

There is a good essay about White Supremacists at the Center for American Progress.

...There is little new in the ideas (click here) that underpin white nationalism, white supremacy, the alt-right, and fascism. At its core, white nationalism is little more than an attempt to cloak white supremacist ideas in the more respectable language of racial separatism, just as the alt-right has tried to repackage fascist thought in a more modern form. All these variants are built on common notions of a white identity and racial superiority. They promote hate and violence as valid political tools, rejecting values of equality, coexistence, and the rule of law in favor of raw power and ethnic division....

10:40 pm 

Trump's circus ends

WWMT of Western Pennsylvania is stating Biden won the debate by 53 percent of 2500 poll participants.

Good night. 

Trump alluded to deaths within the military through health care, "Tri-care."

Tri-Care has a great deal of praise from the US military. Unfortunately, the last opinion survey ended with 2017.

TRICARE Inpatient Satisfaction Survey (TRISS) (click here) survey instrument incorporates the questions developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) initiative. The goal of the HCAHPS initiative is to uniformly measure and publicly report patients’ experience with their inpatient care through use of a standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology. The information derived from the survey can be useful for internal quality improvement initiatives, to assess the impact of changes in operating procedures, and to provide feedback to providers and patients. Comparison of these data with the results from previous surveys as well as comparisons to civilian benchmark data will measure Department of Defense progress in meeting its goals and objectives of high quality healthcare....

To make a long story short..,

 ...the reason Republicans are allowing themselves to be cowed by Trump is because in exchange for power he does all their skut work to remove all the amendments to the USA Constitution including the 1st one. 

The country would have to call for a constitutional convention to rewrite the Constitution. Coney-Barrett subscribes to that ideology at any cost.

The USA has been a successful democracy because of strong ethical standards but that has been eroded over years. Along comes a judicial philosophy by this nominee that attacks the majority rule of the US Constitution, not just the court, but, the vote.

The Chief Justice has been protecting the majority law within the US Constitution regardless of the extremists. Her attack on him was vicious and reprimanding to reduce his allegiance to the majority. He doesn’t subscribe to the counter-majority philosophy. Burger’s use of it elevated the individual without destroying the majority rule.

Within her philosophy the USA Legislature is diminished in its power. Basically, it is an anti-constitutional philosophy. 

There is nothing wrong with exploring thought as an academic, it is the implementation that is grossly inappropriate. But, the politics of the extreme right uses it for leverage and is serious about their hate of “the other.” With Trump this philosophy is a runaway train that will destroy the USA. He is the friend of strongmen and communists.

There is a reason for advice and consent, but, the current Republicans are to scared not to allow a radical judge on the court.

This judicial nominee is a lot more than Roe v. Wade. There are too many Federalist Society members on the court.

Coney-Barrett is a crackpot. The essay she wrote that is being called the end of the ACA qualifies that statement about her.

For those interested, there is a profound oddity about "the thought" that comprises the ideology of "the originalist judge." 

Her essay (click here)

She is a rudimentary anarchist that believes the legislature is a burden to most "sovereign individuals."

The two schools of thought about the US Constitution is arrogant as hell as if there legitimately exists two schools of thought, But, this is a good primer for the discussion.

The counter-majoritarian difficulty (click here) may be the best known problem in constitutional theory. The phrase is attributed to Alexander Bickel—a Yale Law School Professor—who is said to have introduced it in his famous book The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics.  Whatever Bickel actually meant by the phrase, it has now taken on a life of its own. The counter-majoritarian difficulty states a problem with the legitimacy of the institution of judicial review: when unelected judges use the power of judicial review to nullify the actions of elected executives or legislators, they act contrary to “majority will” as expressed by representative institutions. If one believes that democratic majoritarianism is a very great political value, then this feature of judicial review is problematic. For at least two or three decades after Bickel’s naming of this problem, it dominated constitutional theory....

The United States of America was founded on the principle that citizens ruled themselves through representation elected by a majority. 

The counter-majoritarian argues that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is an individual SOVEREIGN that is destroyed by the majority rule. All I know is that the Burger Court did a great job with counter-majority issues and the country is still standing.

But, understanding these two concepts of majoritarian and counter-majoritarian will begin a good discussion. 

One other thing. She refers to returning to practices before the "Lochner Era." (click here)

Basically, the arrogant SOBs that make up the Federalist Society don't want to be bothered by government, they want anarchy so they can make their own economic schemes work regardless of the hardship of the people. Sound familiar? Trump wants to eliminate Social Security by 2023. What happens to the people? We will have returned to pre-FDR with a whole lot more people. They mean it. It is real. Coney-Barrett wants to make it happen.

He never cared about his creditors.

The way Trump handles money appears to be that of a gambler and not a businessman. What if his inheritance was taken by his creditors? He would have resolved a lot of financial stress. Why isn't that important? He wanted his inheritance rather than paying the significant debt facing him. Why would he not want that financial relief his inheritance would provide?

Rather than paying debtors, he wanted the money to gamble with whatever he thought was his right to do.

What I see with him is a man chronically in financial trouble. He sees none of his obligations as important enough to resolve them. He didn't pay his creditors, the IRS, and his own contractors. Four times bankrupt.

A gambler knows the money he has spent is gone to him. But, the money further along the trail is still available to gamble with to win monies back to make good on the money he has already spent. The only reason I bring this up is that it is a very dysfunctional person that actually loses everything only to live in denial of his own problems in living within reality.

His actions with a fragile and failing father are completely devoid of any recognition of his own limits and the reality of his failing father never was a priority.

September 27, 2020
By Michael Karnish

Donald Trump was facing financial disaster in 1990 when he came up with an audacious plan to exert control of his father’s estate.

His creditors threatened to force him into personal bankruptcy, and his first wife, Ivana, wanted “a billion dollars” in a divorce settlement, Donald Trump said in a deposition. So he sent an accountant and a lawyer to see his father, Fred Trump Sr., who was told he needed to immediately sign a document changing his will per his son’s wishes, according to depositions from family members....

It appears Trump has been conducting risky business while in office.

September 28, 2020

By Greg Miller and Yeganeh Torbati

Security teams at U.S. spy agencies (click here) are constantly scouring employee records for signs of potential compromise: daunting levels of debt, troubling overseas entanglements, hidden streams of income, and a penchant for secrecy or deceit to avoid exposure.

President Trump would check nearly every box of this risk profile based on revelations in the New York Times from his long-secret tax records that former intelligence officials and security experts said raise profound questions about whether he should be trusted to safeguard U.S. secrets and interests.

The records show that Trump has continued to make money off foreign investments and projects while in office; that foreign officials have spent lavishly at his Washington hotel and other properties; and that despite this revenue he is hundreds of millions of dollars in debt with massive payments coming due....

The American people have been seeking the truth about Trump's debt for a long time.

Americans understand debt and leverage. It is not a strange idea that Trump's debt will compromise the USA.

December 25, 2019
By Cal North

Full disclosure: I am an old, white man and a liberal Democrat. (click here)

The GOP has one argument right. There is a glaring flaw in the impeachment investigation and hearings. The interference in our elections is about more than massaging Donald J. Trump's thirst for power.

What they have wrong is the lack of attention to the fact, well demonstrated by the president, that all of his actions are in service to Vladimir Putin's drive to revive imperial Russia and to subjugate all of Eastern Europe to it.

That Russian program explains most of what Trump has been doing ever since he met with Putin as a private businessman. His meetings with Putin and his highest aides have been held out of hearing of anyone who might record what was said as they planned their next steps.

Trump is trying to pay off his hundreds of millions of dollar debt to the ruling clique of Russia, and control of our government is the payment required of him. That payment is the auction price for the USA.

Cal North, Kearns

The New York Times provided a service to the American people in answering questions that have lingered for years.

October 16, 2016

By Former Reps. Jim Slattery, Chris Shays, Tom Coleman, Richard Sweet and Michael Andrews

Americans (click here) do not know the extent of Donald Trump’s business relations with Russia or China, but we need to know.

In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. — the GOP nominee’s son and the VP for Development for The Trump Organization — told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Americans need to know how much money has poured into The Trump Organization from Russia and from whom. Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions....

The Russian government owns the banks and every wealthy oligarch in the country. It is impossible to deal with Russia in any way without dealing with the Russian government.

July 4, 2020

By Franklin Foer

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting with a supervisory board of Russian state-owned investment bank Vnesheconombank in Moscow, July 11, 2012.

Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West (click here) —and that plan looks a lot like Donald Trump. Over the past decade, Russia has boosted right-wing populists across Europe. It loaned money to Marine Le Pen in France, well-documented transfusions of cash to keep her presidential campaign alive. Such largesse also wended its way to the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who profited “personally and handsomely” from Russian energy deals, as an American ambassador to Rome once put it. (Berlusconi also shared a 240-year-old bottle of Crimean wine with Putin and apparently makes ample use of a bed gifted to him by the Russian president.)...

Go, Dr. Redfield, Go!

Dr. Redfield should be encouraging everyone to get their flu shot now.

Dr. Redfield don't' worry about the apprentice show with the White House, the people belong to those that want them well and protected.

We are with you, Dr. Redfield. Mr. Atlas has no peer-reviewed research to back him up. I think he is a dangerous practioner.

September 25, 2020

By Monica Alba

Washington - The director (click here) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force, is sharing incorrect information about the pandemic with the public.

Dr. Robert Redfield, who leads the CDC, suggested in a conversation with a colleague Friday that Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with misleading data about a range of issues, including questioning the efficacy of masks, whether young people are susceptible to the virus and the potential benefits of herd immunity.

"Everything he says is false," Redfield said during a phone call made in public on a commercial airline and overheard by NBC News.

Redfield acknowledged after the flight from Atlanta to Washington that he was speaking about Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases or public health. Atlas was brought on to the White House task force in August....

 

No chance Trump has an ostrich jacket? Good Night.

 

Thank you, Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire for your dedication to the truth. This is a brave thing. Very brave.

He has no respect for this country. He hates the USA. He begrudged the country it's rightful income in taxes. 

$750 in one year. That is amazing. Most Americans pay that and more in mortgages or rent and he actually only paid that in taxes. 

September 27, 2020

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year (click here) he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million....

Why is $100 million such a tragedy for Trump? He claims he is a billionaire, paying $100 million in taxes sounds right. So, what is the issue? He can't afford to pay $100 million in taxes? Why?

How much of the 2017 tax cuts serve Trump's best interests over that of the country?

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), (click here) passed in December 2017, made several significant changes to the individual income tax. These changes include a nearly doubled standard deduction, new limitations on itemized deductions, reduced income tax rates, and reforms to several other provisions. In all, these changes simplify the individual income tax by eliminating the need for millions of households to itemize their deductions.

After December 31, 2025, most of the changes to the individual income tax code revert to pre-TCJA status. If Congress allows these changes to go into effect, most households would experience tax increases beginning in 2026. In the meantime, however, individual income taxes will be substantially lower for households across the income spectrum....

I worry about the country and the assault on it's treasury by Trump and the Republicans. Before the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 Trump was running very large deficits. 

February 1, 2020

By Chuck Jones

The Congressional Budget Office, (click here) or CBO, published its latest “Budget and Economic Outlook” which covers 2020 to 2030 on Wednesday, January 29. The 88 page report projects the Federal government receipts and expenditures to calculate the yearly Federal deficits and total debt, and it forecasts various economic metrics such as the economies growth rate and employment numbers.

President Obama entered office in early 2009 in the teeth of the Great Recession. Not surprisingly, the deficit exploded from $459 billion in calendar 2008 to over $1.4 trillion in calendar 2009. As the economy recovered the deficits shrank to a low of $442 billion in 2015 and was $585 billion his last year in office.

President Trump on the other hand was handed an economy that was growing. In 2017, his first year in office the deficit grew to $666 billion, was $984 billion last year and is projected to be over $1 trillion in 2020 at $1.02 trillion. This would be a 74% increase in just four years and going forward the Federal deficit could escalate to $1.7 trillion in 2030....

How much did he benefit from his years in the White House? A booming economy as he states existed usually brings down the national deficit. I just don't trust him and this information about his taxes only cements that mistrust.

It is going to be difficult while he is in office to ask the IRS for audits that provide for the monies he owes the US Government. He needs to get used to the idea of writing a check to the USA treasury.

...Most of Mr. Trump’s core enterprises — from his constellation of golf courses to his conservative-magnet hotel in Washington — report losing millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars year after year.

His revenue from “The Apprentice” and from licensing deals is drying up, and several years ago he sold nearly all the stocks that now might have helped him plug holes in his struggling properties....

He bases his questionable investments in personal pleasure. Golf courses, hotels, and casinos are very risky businesses. They have high levels of maintenance in order to maintain their image to attract patrons. There is a high level of cash flow and that is a tempting place for corruption all by itself.

It is so laughable that he doesn't pay taxes. I guess this makes him a TAKER and not a MAKER, as the Republicans would say.

...The Times was also able to take the fullest measure to date of the president’s income from overseas, where he holds ultimate sway over American diplomacy. When he took office, Mr. Trump said he would pursue no new foreign deals as president. Even so, in his first two years in the White House, his revenue from abroad totaled $73 million. And while much of that money was from his golf properties in Scotland and Ireland, some came from licensing deals in countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders or thorny geopolitics — for example, $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey....

All of this is supposed be in a blind trust. What a mess. His family has been taking advantage of their influence with Trump as well. 

In balance, business people that are honest and have good business practices pay taxes and a lot of them. They don't begrudge the government it's due. I know personally a very successful uncle, now passed away, that paid considerable taxes. He served in the armed forces. His millions were self-made in the transportation industry. He told a story about how his hand was shaking when signing a check for a million dollars to the USA for taxes on the monies he made that year. He never even tried to hide monies and always was honest about his income. He benefited very well from his income. He lived on a golf course and sent his twelve grandchildren to private religious schools. It is just a shame Trump is this kind of man. Other men and women in business will not appreciate the fact he went out of his way to make poor investments. They don't.

The Democrats had the plan for the minority communities before Trump mimicked it.

July 16, 2020

Senate Democrats (click here) say they want $350 billion for minority communities in the next stimulus bill to address needs ranging from child care to infrastructure, adding a new demand as lawmakers prepare to start crafting another massive virus relief package.

That would add to the $3.5 trillion plan recently passed by the Democrat-led House and endorsed by party lawmakers in both chambers. The Senate Democrats’ propose getting $200 billion of the amount by tapping unspent money from a fund set up in the massive stimulus measure approved in March that facilitates corporate lending by the Treasury Department....

The African American community will never see a dime of the Trump "Platinum Plan." Why? Because he could have already issued at least $350 billion in aid to these communities that the Democrats proposed months ago. Trump never saw the importance of the second relief bill. The US Senate is now out on vacation without plans to return before the election.

So, if Trump was actually going to spend $500 billion to the minority communities it could have already begun and the Democrats would be delighted to increase the investment monies. If Trump wanted to spend $500 billion rather than $350 billion it would be done. Trump is never going to provide such a package to the minority communities. He lies and lying about promises of money is among his favorite lies. 

September 26, 2020

President Donald Trump (click here) on Friday announced a new $500 billion plan promising "opportunity," "security," "prosperity," and "fairness" for black Americans if he is reelected in November.

The president's campaign is calling this the "Platinum Plan," Fox News reported. Trump's plan calls for $500 billion of capital investment into black communities, tax cuts and opportunity zones to support black-owned businesses, continued criminal justice reform, increased support for police, making lynching a federal hate crime, and the prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan and Antifa as terrorist organizations.

"For decades, Democrat politicians like Joe Biden have taken Black voters for granted. They made you big promises before every election — and then the moment they got to Washington, they abandoned you and sold you out," the president said in remarks obtained by Fox News. "The Democrats will always take Black voters for granted until large numbers of Black Americans vote Republican."...

No one can trust him. Look, he tried to stop USA funding to another country to protect their sovereignty. He doesn't care about people. He only cares about his own interests. People have to ask what danger now exists in their lives that should have been averted by sincere leadership with the country at heart.

The spread of SARS-CoV-2 could have absolutely been stopped and Trump's inability to protect the people is exposed by this virus. Why would anyone consider statements by Trump as true when all he has done is lie to the American people? Stop being the foolish people he is hoping for to stay in the White House. With Trump it won't get better from here, it will get worse. The peril of the country has increased year after year with him in the White House. Stop playing the fool.

The states with high rates of infection and sustained infection rates are all Red States. Are they just not that bright?

 Latest Map and Case Count (click here)

With the exception of Puerto Rico, Minnesota, and Illinois, the Red States are exhibiting a real lack of plans to end the virus infection rate. This is astoundingly ridiculous. The Governors can't get it right? There aren't that many equations for success.

The death rates are increasing in states where the cases of the virus are not increasing. This very well may be the aftermath of the virus. These deaths occurring in states where the virus is mostly contained is most probably due to the long-lasting effects of the infection.

South Dakota has at least two large hot spots within their Native American Reservations. In particular, Pine Ridge (Lakota) and Sisseton Wahpeton (click here) tribes. They need help. There may be more problems in the Lower Brule (Lakota) as well. The rest of the increase in South Dakota appears to be in larger population areas. This is all about masks, social distancing, and hand hygiene. Close the bars and there will be an improvement.

There have to be non-profits working with areas of the country to supply food and medicine. They need to help the Native American tribes become a far more stable community in relation to the spread of the virus. They may need airlifts to bring seriously ill members of the tribe to hospitals with ventilators.

The Tribal Affairs Bureau (click here) is within HHS. It is important that the arm of HHS be in touch with all the tribal areas and have plans to assist. They need funding and they may not know there are monies, supplies, and help available.

Debate masks, social distancing and hand hygiene.

I am disappointed the presidential debates are not virtual. I think Trump is unreliable when it comes to standing at six feet from Joe Biden on a debate stage. If the candidates are to shake hands, there needs to be hand sanitizer available after the handshake. They must mask if they going to shake hands because it is closer than the six-foot standard.

Joe Biden has been exceptional in his caution of SARS-CoV-2. He wears masks and obeys the six-foot rule. Goodwill needs to be set aside in recognition of the danger Americans face today.
 

When someone like Coney-Barrett comes along the decisions, minority or majority, will reorder society.

Frozen Embryo Transfer (click here)

Patients interested in frozen embryo transfer will first undergo a fresh IVF cycle to create embryos. During this assisted reproductive procedure, Dr. Kalan or Winkler will harvest eggs through a natural or medication-assisted ovulation cycle and fertilize the eggs with the partner’s, or chosen donor’s, sperm. After about five days of growth in the laboratory, all viable embryos are frozen (cryopreserved).

When embryos become citizens what then is the future of frozen embryos? Currently, the donors of sperm and eggs, usually a couple, have ownership over them. But, when they are citizens who has the last word on ownership or citizenship? Will the government be able to come in and force the embryos to be carried to term? And if the couple is not willing to have all those children does the government have the OBLIGATION to see every "embryo citizen" has a chance at a full life? What will the financial status of the embryos be now that they are full citizens? Can they be taken as dependents? And if the answer is yes, do they have a dependency status the same as any other naturally born child, or will it be forever until they reach a full life capacity.

When a political party plays with these issues there are ever-increasing dangers in ways no one ever bargained for and will result in the compromise of our democracy. Such decisions create monsters and not resolutions to a society's problem. This is only one question that would result in the case the Supreme Court ends the idea of abortion and makes fertilized eggs into citizens.

Barrett is a political pick, not a qualified candidate. She is a crackpot. The USA is not the Vatican.

She is one of several women who moved into the federal judicial system by Trump for the purpose of political choice rather than experience and knowledge.

It is unfortunate that Barrett was nominated for a Supreme Court seat. She is a crackpot. She needs a ministry, not a judicial seat, but, the Catholic Church won't allow women to have a priesthood.

This is an extremely rare photo (click here) where she can be found outside a black robe. She is anti-everything, including democracy. There is absolutely no standing for her PLEDGE to be against stare decisis. There is no one who can change the words in the US Consitution no matter how hard they try. Stare Decisis is a fact, not an opinion. Barrett is a crackpot when she can't even fall into line with stare decisis.

Barrett's opining will frequently stand in opposition to the judicial wisdom of the great Supreme Court Ruth Badar Ginsburg compositions. Barrett's opining is very arbitrary political and not thoughtful.

20 U. Haw. L. Rev. 835 (1998) (click here)
When Is an Innovation in Order: Justice Bader Ruth Ginsburg and Stare Decisis

Predictably so, she is a favorite "Federalist Society" darling. (click here)

Her decisions will be to enslave women to their bodies and oppress their rights and choices in life. A fact of life is that a woman's capacity of reproduction and the degree she engages in pregnancy HAS TO BE LEFT TO THE WOMAN. There isn't anything else to say.

We have seen the tragedy of declaring a fertilized egg a person. There will be investigations into every miscarriage and women will find themselves living alone rather than with a man in or out of marriage. If Barrett has her way, married women will need permits to have intercourse with their husbands in order to become pregnant or she may even demand married people only engage in the assistance of a clinic to become pregnant insuring the child will not be a bastard child.

She has absolutely no experience to have her understand the place of the court in the lives of Americans. She is an originalist which means she sees only wealthy white men have control over the US Constitution. The TONE of this White House exudes only that priority in it's racist stances and promoting violence by White Supremacists.

White Supremacists is proof of this White House leanings into originalist goals.

My views are not alone and not new. She is a known commodity to be a crackpot. She is not qualified nor is her judicial proceedings to date helpful to the people of the USA. Who goes up against the Supreme Court's Chief Justice unless it is to force her nomination as a political favorite.

September 28, 2017

By Laurie Goldstein

One of President Trump’s judicial nominees (click here) became something of a hero to religious conservatives after she was grilled at a Senate hearing this month over whether her Roman Catholic faith would influence her decisions on the bench.

The nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, a law professor up for an appeals court seat, had raised the issue herself in articles and speeches over the years. The Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee zeroed in on her writings, and in the process prompted accusations that they were engaged in religious bigotry.

“The dogma lives loudly within you,” declared Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, in what has become an infamous phrase. Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, accused his colleagues of employing an unconstitutional “religious test” for office.

Ms. Barrett told the senators that she was a faithful Catholic, and that her religious beliefs would not affect her decisions as an appellate judge. But her membership in a small, tightly knit Christian group called People of Praise never came up at the hearing, and might have led to even more intense questioning....

Her devotion to religion over the US Constitution is exhibited over and over again. As a member of an elite group of Catholics at Notre Dame, she advised EXISTING AND SITTING JUDGES. An academic provided advice as if a peer. She was not a peer and under the First Amendment, religious freedom is absolute. Any judge can determine AS INDIVIDUALS in their ability to sit on a case that MIGHT lead to the death penalty. She lacks maturity within the practice of law and considers others beneath her intellect and incompetent to make their own decisions in regard to their religious affiliations in their ability to be judges. 

...She later (click here) became of a law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, where she was a member of Faculty for Life, an anti-abortion group at the university. One of her mentors was law professor John Garvey, now president of the Catholic University of America.

Garvey collaborated with Barrett on a 1998 law review article that argued that Catholic judges may recuse themselves from death penalty cases because of the church’s opposition to the death penalty.

The law review article drew attention during Barrett’s 2017 hearing in which she was confirmed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, according to Politico. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., mentioned the article when questioning Barrett about Roe v. Wade....

She is not a competent practitioner of the US Constitution.